Cause of error

The website download uses a secure socket protocol provided by the Windows operating system, which contains the encryption and decryption API used by the https certificate. When encountering an encryption API that the Windows system does not have, this error will be reported.

Windows supports TLS versions

• windows7 and windows server 2008 R2, supports up to TLS 1.0 version.
• Windows 10 version 21H2 and Windows Server 2019, supports up to TLS1.2 version.
• Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022, supports up to TLS1.3 version.

Detailed documentation

• TLS protocol Windows version support in TLS/SSL (Schannel SSP)

If Windows 11 still reports an error when encountering TLS1.3, Windows PowerShell Execute the following code:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.ServiceModel [System.Enum]::GetNames([System.Net.SecurityProtocolType])

The TLS version used by the website

• Reference Documents:How to check the TLS version a website uses

Software questions

Why can Chrome/Edge run on Windows7/Windows 2008?

• Because software such as Chrome/Edge has a built-in https certificate encryption and decryption API.

Why don’t website downloads have built-in encryption and decryption APIs?

• First, https uses many encryption protocols, which can only be built-in using third-party components, but the software size increases several times, which is not what we want to see.
• Second, third-party components are constantly updating encryption and need to be kept up to date and maintained. However, when using the built-in Windows system, there is no need to worry about this issue. The problem can be solved as long as the Windows system is updated to the latest version.
• Finally, these encryption and decryption APIs are too complicated and are not the direction of research.